Julia Stockburger is practicing for a competition against 60 of the top blind and visually impaired students in the nation.

The students will be judged on how well they can transcribe, type and read Braille.

"There's, like, proofreading and reading comprehension and spelling dictation in there," Julia said of the competition.

"We were shocked -- she's 6 years old!" said Julia's mother, Jennifer Roth. "It wasn't expected. It's a big deal because it's all the way in California."

"We try to help her out as much as possible, give her a couple hours of work a week. We try to do a little bit of the proofreading, a little bit of the spelling dictation, but she is so smart, she blows me out of the water," said Tim Ward, Julia's stepfather.

When asked whether it hard to learn, Julia answered, "No, of course not. It was a little hard at first, but then when I learned the contractions, I could do it better."

Besides going over her notes for the competition, Julia has another reason to be excited.

"I'm going to fly on a plane and go to the pool, and it's going to be so much fun," Julia said.

"She didn't know California meant it was a plane ride," Roth said. "She thought the plane would pick us up here like a car would."

Julia and her family give much credit goes to Julia's teacher, Julie Gaynor, who helped prepare her for this big break. Come fall, Julia will be a student at Perry Hall Elementary School, and she could aim for becoming a math teacher or meteorologist.